aodach
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish étach (compare modern Irish éadach).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɯːt̪əx/
Noun
aodach m (genitive singular aodaich, plural aodaichean)
- clothes, dress
- cuir ort d' aodach ― put on your clothes
- cloth, material
- aodach sa bheairt ― cloth in the loom
- (nautical) sails (collectively)
Derived terms
- aodach canaich (“cotton cloth, calico”)
- aodach-leapa (“bed-clothes”)
- aodach lìn (“linen cloth”)
- aodach oidhche (“night clothes”)
- aodach olla (“woollen cloth”)
- cnag-aodaich (“clothes peg”)
- fo-aodach (“underwear”)
- sorchan-aodaich (“coatstand”)
- uchd-aodach (“bra”)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aodach | n-aodach | h-aodach | t-aodach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “aodach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)